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Another public execution was carried, today, in the City of
Shiraz under heavy security measures and despite residents'
protest.

The victim named "Mozafar Zareh" was accused of
"Kidnapping", "Armed Robbery" and "Murder". He was arrested
following the clashes which happened, two years ago, in
this southern city between protesters and Islamic regime's
security forces.

Tens were injured and at least two were killed during the
clashes. Several public buildings were damaged by
protesters who retaliated to the brutal attacks made by
militiamen.

Public executions are common, in Iran, as the theocratic
regime uses them to show example to the population on the
consequences of what can happened due to the expression of
their aspiration for a total change.

The Islamic republic regime is known for using false
labels, such as, "Kidnapping", "Armed Robbery",
"Murder", "Drug Trafficking", "Spying" or "Banditism" in
order to qualify some of its exasperated opponents. Such
policy helps its European, Asian and S. American partners
to continue their economic relations with a repressive
regime vis-୶is their public opinions.

A man accused of murder was executed, yesterday, in the
southern City of Bandar Abbas located by the Persian Gulf.

Official sources have just revealed the first name of the
victim as "Ali". He was accused of "Murder" but was
arrested following the clashes which happened, few months
ago, in this southern city between protesters and Islamic
regime's security forces.

The Islamic republic regime is known for using false
labels, such as, "Kidnapping", "Armed Robbery", "Murder",
"Drug Trafficking", "Spying" or "Banditism" in order to
qualify some of its exasperated opponents. Such policy
helps its European, Asian and S. American partners to
justify the continuation of their economic relations with a
repressive regime vis-୶is their public opinions.

Two more Iranians were executed, yesterday, by the Islamic
republic regime accused of "Murder", "Kidnapping" and
"Drug Trafficking".

One of these new victims of the barbarian mullahs' regime,
who was not identified, was hanged in public in the
southern city of Kerman. The second , named as Reza, was
hanged in the central prison in the northeastern city of
Mashhad.

The Islamic republic regime is known for using false
labels, such as, "Kidnapping", "Armed Robbery", "Murder",
"Drug Trafficking", "Spying" or "Banditism" in order to
qualify some of its exasperated opponents. Such policy
helps its European, Asian and S. American partners to
justify the continuation of their economic relations with a
repressive regime vis-୶is their public opinions.

Three more Iranians were executed, yesterday, after having
been accused of being "thugs" and for having "disrupted
public security". These public executions took place in the
northeastern City of Sabzevar.

The news of the executions was reported by the official
"Khorassan Daily" but the names of these victims were not
reveled.

Sabzevar was the scene of several riots, which took place
two years ago, and it's believed that the three victims
were in reality exasperated Iranians who had stood up
against the Islamic regime's forces' use of brutality.

Tens were injured or killed during the clashes which
sparkled under the motif of the Khorassan province's spilt
between four new administrative entities. Several public
buildings were damaged by protesters who retaliated to the
brutal attacks made by militiamen.

Public executions, in Iran, are common as the theocratic
regime uses them in order to show to the population the
consequences of what can happen due to the expression of
their aspiration for a total change.

The Islamic republic regime is known for using false
labels, such as, "Kidnapping", "Armed Robbery", "Murder",
"Drug Trafficking", "Spying" or "Banditism" in order to
qualify some of its exasperated opponents. Such policy
helps its European, Asian and S. American partners to
justify the continuation of their economic relations with a
repressive regime vis-୶is their public opinions.

Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – The government of radical Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to segregate Iran’s pedestrian walkways on gender basis, according to Fatemeh Alia, a deputy in Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) and one of Ahmadinejad’s closest allies.

Since Ahmadinejad took office as president, new measures have been enforced to, in his words, “return the Islamic Republic to the days of the [1979 Islamic] revolution”.

As part of the government plan called “Increase the hejab (veil) culture and female chastity”, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has received orders to construct separate pedestrian walkways for men and women, according to Alia.

“This plan is the most advanced and complete plan regarding the hejab. In the next two weeks its final considerations will be complete and it will start to be implemented”.

Previously, when he was Mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinejad ordered all the buildings belonging to the municipality to have separate elevators for men and women.

“The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development will have an obligation to construct apartments in a special way … which would be in line with the culture and atmosphere of an Islamic society. The Ministry of Roads and Transport must pay special attention to the walkways, roads, railways, and transportation routes so that we no longer get reports of mal-veiling in these routes”, the hard-line Majlis deputy said.

Alia added that special provisions also had to be made for tourists who travel to Iran so that they also adhere to Islamic regulations.

Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.

The state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday that 18-year-old Nazanin confessed to stabbing one of three men who had attacked the pair along with their boyfriends while they were spending some time in a park west of the Iranian capital in March 2005.

Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girls’ boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.

She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.

As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.

The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.

Last week, a court in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, sentenced Delara Darabi to death by hanging charged with murder when she was 17 years old. Darabi has denied the charges.

In August 2004, Iran’s Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing “acts incompatible with chastity”.

The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.

Tehran, Iran, Dec. 26 – More than ten percent of street-children in the Iranian capital, Tehran, are girls, according to a report in the Fars news agency, which is close to the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The report quoted a senior official in the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs as saying that 11 percent of runaway children in the capital were girls.

It added that the most common age group for street-children is 15-19 years old, most of whom have only attended junior school.

A recent study last year revealed that fourteen percent of all children in Iran are currently working so as to provide income for their families.

The report pointed out that many of these children were forced into illegal employment such as smuggling, selling narcotics, and prostitution and had to forgo any opportunity of studying in school. Most are facing malnutrition and prone to diseases due to lack of hygiene, according to the latest statistics.

Iranian authorities had recently announced that the number of street children throughout the country was in the hundreds of thousands.

According to a separate report in the state-run daily Iran on Sunday, organised gangs are selling many young Iranian girls to wealthy men in places such as Dubai.

The daily hinted that the groups may have been given a green light by Iran’s hard-line judiciary, which has given lenient sentences to individuals arrested for selling the girls.

It said that some were freed straight away after paying a small sum as bail.

The theocratic regime has increased the wave of repression
and executions in order to boost the existing fear among
Iranians.

Two more Iranians have been executed by the Islamic
republic regime in the southern City of Dezfool. These two
new victims, named Ali B. and Eidi A., were accused of
"kidnapping" and "rape".

Two other, named Ayat Kh. and Mehdi A., were also executed
on Friday in the City of Shiraz for "Murder".

Also, various reports are stating about the execution,
earlier this week, of another political figure named Hojat
Zamani. The latter, whom his body has not been restituted
to his family, was arrested five years ago on charge of
"armed attack", "bombing" and "murder".

In reality many of these victims are exasperated young
Iranians who had stood up against the Islamic regime's use
of brutality and had resorted to violence as the last
option to end the collective misery.

The Islamic republic regime is known for using false
labels, such as, "Kidnapping", "Armed Robbery", "Murder",
"Drug Trafficking", 'Rape', "Spying" or "Banditism" in
order to qualify some of its exasperated opponents. Such
policy helps its European, Asian and S. American partners
to justify the continuation of their economic relations
with a repressive regime vis-୶is their public opinions.

They really have stepped up their brutal suppression and oppression campaign.

First they offed the Revolutionary Guard officers who could've mounted a coup against them in a so called plane crash, and now they're embarking on a brutal suppression campaign.

But if they push too hard, which either their fear or over cockiness could potentially trigger at this time, then they just might light the fuse for the social explosion everybody has been waiting for.

Amnesty International today expressed grave concern about the rate of executions reported in Iran and said it feared for the lives of a number of political prisoners, some of whom are reported to have been on death row for several years. The organization is also outraged that Iran continues to sentence child offenders to death in contravention of its international human rights obligations.

Executions in Iran continue at an alarming rate.Amnesty International recorded 94 executions in 2006, although the true figure is likely to be much higher. So far in 2006, it has recorded as many as 28 executions. Most of the victims were sentenced for crimes such as murder but one of those recently executed was a political prisoner, Hojjat Zamani, a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), who was abducted from Turkey in 2003 and sentenced to death in 2004 after conviction of involvement in a bomb explosion in Tehran in 1988 which killed 3 people (See Urgent Actions AI Index EUR 44/025/2003, 5 November 2003 and MDE 13/032/2004). He was taken from his cell in Gohar Dasht prison and executed on 7 February 2006, though his execution was officially confirmed by Iranian officials only on 21 February.

Hojjat Zamani’s execution has fuelled fears that other political prisoners may be at risk of imminent execution. According to unconfirmed reports that have been circulating since early February, a number of political and other prisoners who are under sentence of death have been told by prison officials that they would be executed if Iran should be referred to the UN Security Council over the resumption of its nuclear programmed (which Iran claims is intended solely for the peaceful production of nuclear energy). These are said to have included other members of the PMOI, which is an illegal organization in Iran. It was the PMOI that was the source of evidence in 2002 revealing Iran’s nuclear programme to the outside world.

Among those feared to be at risk are Sa’id Masouri (See Urgent Action AI Index MDE 13/018/2002), a PMOI member who has been held in solitary confinement in Section 209 of Evin Prison since late 2004; Khaled Hardani, Farhang Pour Mansouri and Shahram Pour Mansouri (See Urgent Action AI Index: MDE 13/003/2005), all three of whom were involved in hijacking a plane in 2001 when Shahram Pour Mansouri was aged only 17; Gholamhossein Kalbi and Valiollah Feyz Mahdavi, both PMOI members, and Alireza Karami Khairabadi.

Amnesty International has also received reports that at least two Iranian Arabs may be facing imminent execution. The province of Khuzestan has been the centre of wide scale unrest since 15 April 2005 (For further information on the unrest in Khuzestan province, see Iran: New Government fails to address dire human rights situation AI Index MDE 13/010/2006). Mohammad Ali Sawari and Mehdi Nawaseri, both said to be in their early twenties, have reportedly been sentenced to death. Mohammad Ali Sawari was arrested following demonstrations in Ahwaz City on 4 November 2005. Mehdi Nawaseri was arrested in October 2005, after previously having been detained in April 2005 and subsequently released.

On 14 February 2006, Jamal Karimi-Rad, Minister of Justice and Spokesman for the Judiciary, told the news agency IRNA that seven of the 45 people arrested in connection with bomb explosions in September and October 2005 had been convicted on charges including “enmity with God, corruption on earth and murder” and that their sentences would be announced shortly. The penalty for enmity against God and corruption on earth can be execution, cross amputation, crucifixion for three days, or banishment. On 20 February 2006, the Prosecutor General Ghorban-Ali Dori-Najafabadi was reported as stating “some of the convicted in this case have received execution verdict, including the two main culprits, whose presence in the recent Ahvaz incidents was proved and their execution verdict is definitive”. On 21 February, in a statement to IRNA commenting on this report, Jamal Karimi-Rad stated that only two had been sentenced to death and these were under review by the Supreme Court. He noted that “the crimes committed by all the seven convicts do not call for the death sentence”. Amnesty International fears that Mohammad Ali Sawari and Mehdi Nawaseri may be the two referred to and may be at imminent risk of execution.

Amnesty International is also outraged that Iran has sentenced yet another child offender to death. According to reports carried by two Iranian news agencies, Fars, and the Iran Students Correspondents Asscociation (ISCA), an 18-year-old youth, identified only as Mohammad, was sentenced to death by Branch 71 of the Tehran Criminal Court for a murder he committed in August 2003 when he was aged only 16. According to these reports, he had originally been tried by the Childrens’ Court and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and payment of blood money. However, the family of the victim reportedly complained that the sentence was insufficiently severe and the Supreme Court decided that as Mohammad had now reached 18, he could be tried in the Criminal Court, which resulted in his death sentence. The death sentence must be ratified by the Supreme Court before it can be carried out.

On 18 February 2006, IRNA is said to have reported Ahmad Mozaffari, a judge in Tehran’s Appeal Court, as stating that Iran will continue to sentence child offenders to death “without considering other options”.

As a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Iran has undertaken not to execute anyone for an offence committed when they were under the age of 18. Nevertheless, Amnesty International has recorded 18 executions of child offenders in Iran since 1990. In 2005 alone, at least eight executions of child offenders were recorded

Amnesty International recognizes the rights and responsibilities of governments to bring to justice those suspected of committing recognizably criminal offences, but the organization is unconditionally opposed to the use of the death penalty as the ultimate violation of the right to life. It therefore urges the Iranian authorities to impose an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty and to abide by its international obligations not to execute anyone for an offence committed when they were a child.

AI Index: MDE 13/019/2006 24 February 2006

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Reports from Iran say that Massoud Osanlou, the leader of the bus drivers' union, was arrested at his home by members of the Basij, the pro-regime militia, and had part of his tongue cut out as a warning to be quiet.

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London, Feb. 25 – Iranians were surprised to see that the Persian translation of this year’s “The World’s 10 Worst Dictators” published in the New York-based weekly Parade contained only nine names. Who was missing?

Iran’s state-run news agency ILNA carried a report on the list of authoritarian rulers published by the magazine, but the agency deliberately removed the name of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, from the list.

Parade’s list says that Khamenei has “shut down the free press, tortured journalists and ordered the execution of homosexual males”.

“Over the past four years, the rulers of Iran have undone the reforms that were emerging in the nation”.

Khamenei was a new entry in the Top 10, up nine points from his previous standing.

In a report on Khamenei’s role in the Iranian theocracy in December 2004, the U.S.-based Committee on the Present Danger wrote, “In addition to its peace-threatening nuclear program, Iran under Khamenei continues to be the world’s foremost state supporter of terrorism… He is seeking regional hegemony, both ideologically and militarily. His growing oil wealth increases his capacity for wreaking havoc on his own people and the region”.